Replicant

h1. Donate Devices to the Replicant Project

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h2. Introduction

We would like our paid and volunteer developers to be able to focus as much of their time as possible on development and as little time as possible on sourcing and refurbishing devices that they need to do their development work. To this end, we very much welcome device donations. Since we spend a lot of time researching which devices would be good for our project to port to, the types of devices we are interested in obtaining is somewhat limited. If you have any of the devices below, please "contact us":https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/Index#Contact

h2. Devices

As the Replicant project evolve and developers comes and leave, it is hard to precisely predict in advance which device model we will need and how many we need at a given point in time, but we still have some idea of which devices are needed or might be useful.

h3. Maintained device

To make a Replicant release, it's a very good idea to make sure that at least one developer that is actively working on the release has at least every supported devices.

Without that we would need to wait (potentially indefinitely) for someone to test the release before it's released, or hope that the other devices are similar enough and that everything will work fine.

* When devices are very similar (like the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and the Galaxy Tab 2 10.0), the probability of having one but not the other working is still small enough so we could take our chances.

* In some cases it's also interesting for a single developer to have multiples time the exact same device as it can help saving a lot of time when comparing things or when working on two totally different part of the code or different Replicant versions for the same device. For instance Replicant developers working on upstream Linux and Replicant 6 might have GNU/Linux installed on a device and on Replicant 6 installed on the other one.

A list of maintained devices is available on the "supported-devices":https://replicant.us/supported-devices.php page

[[People#Denis-GNUtoo-Carikli|Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]] still lacks the following devices:

* 1 Galaxy Note 8.0 WiFi (GT-N5110)

* 1 Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 WiFi (GT-P3110)

* 1 Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 WiFi  (GT-P5110)

* 1 Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 GSM  (GT-P5100)

However this is not crucial as he already has a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (P3100) which is similar enough. He will also get a Galaxy Note 8.0 (GT-N5100) soon.

h3 Device variants for porting or testing Replicant

Replicant has been tested on very few variant of a given device. For instance for the Galaxy Note II, we only support the GT-N7100 variant. Having more variants would enable us to test Replicant on them, and if some more work is needed and that we can find the time to do it, to also port Replicant to them.

h4. Samsung Galaxy S3

In addition to the GT-I9300 variant which is already supported by Replicant, Replicant developers are lacking the following variants of the Galaxy SIII:

* GT-I9300X

* GT-I9305T

* GT-I9305N

* SGH-N035 (SC-03E)

* GT-I9308

* SCH-I939

* SCH-I939D

* SHV-E210K

* SHV-E210L

* SHV-E210S 

Some Replicant developers also probably lack the Galaxy SIII 4G (GT-I9305).

h4. Samsung Galaxy Note II 

In addition to the GT-N7100 variant which is already supported by Replicant, Replicant developers are lacking the following variants of the Galaxy Note II:

* GT-N7102

* GT-N7105

* GT-N7105T

* GT-N7108D

* GT-N7108

* SGH-i317

* SGH-i317M 

* SCH-i605

* SCH-R950

* SCH-N719

* SGH-T889

* SGH-T889V

* SPH-L900

* SGH-N025 (SC-02E)

* SHV-E250K

* SHV-E250L

* SHV-E250S